New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-07
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THE BUTCHERY OF GOODMAN.
CHASTITY CONFESSION OF THE MURDERER
JAMES EDWARD NOwLIN, AGE SEVENTEEN. prp rHs
DEED WITH A CARVING KNIFE AND AN
AxE-THE MOTIVE FOR

AAE-IHE MOTIVE FOR
THE CRIME
BOSTON, Jan 6.-The names of the three yners
arrested yesterday charged with the murder os
George A. Goldman. whose mutilated body was
found at Lexington, are James E.
Nowlin, Thomas Neville and Michael
Sweeney. The last-named was arrested
at about midnight last night. Hc denied that he
had anything to do with the murder, asserting
that he had just been discharged from the Cam
bridge House Of Correction NoVln this morning
made full confession to Chief OF Police Park.
hurst and Captain Perry. He said he was tho
only one concerned in the murder. and accordingly
the other prisoners were released. Nowlin says
he killed young Goldman at o'clock on Tuesday,
morning. The deed was done in Codman's stable.
He says that he had been thinking Of il for somc
days excited thereto by Codmans boastful way
OF showing money, and expected to secure about
$500, with which he intended to leave this part
OF the country He slipped up behind the victim
ana stabbed him In the side of the neck with n
butchers knife. He severed an artery and Cod
man fell to the floor and died almost instantly.
lie then put the body under pung, covered i'd
up and went on his milk route taking his brother
with him.
| lie returned about II o'clock, put up his team
and went to dinner After dinner he went to tho
stable, cleaned up the traces of the crime as well
/ as nc COllu, anu uen dcllDcfateu as 10 the
disposition Of the body lie finally decided t0
take il away in the pung and secrete it somewhere
until he could safely get rid OF it He con-
sidered the weight of the body. and to mako
IL easier to handle and to hide the traces of his
ghastly load he concluded to dsmcmber it, Then
he took an and first chopped off the left leg
close to the body and then the right arm. Thinking
that with these members gone he could easily
| hendle what was left he placed the body and tho
severed parts in the back part Of his pung and
covered it with the rubber horse blanket which
was subsequently found near the body. and also
put the into the sleigh Before starting no
tldied things up In the stable. destroying what he
could OF the marks left after his rough mode ot
dissection. He concluded then to secure tho
money for which he had committed the crime
and started off with the turnout and the body
for Codman's boarding house He left the team
standing a few doors from the house and then
went in. telling the landlord that Goldman was
going away for an indefinite time with a man
and had sent him for his money and other things
| lie was allowed to go up to Codman's room to
get articles Of apparel, and from there he carried
of the desk containing sbout S215 in money and
| other articles Of value He returned to the team
and drove off toward Lexington.
| After driving awhile he BEGAN to realize the
cnnrmty of his crime and became more and mora
| frightened he drove along. imagining that all
who saw him knew OF the dreadful burden ne
was carrying. His fears worked SO much upon
him that when he to lonely part of the
road and was free from observation he took the
body out of the pung and. halt frcnzied by his
fear of detection. seized the axe and chopped the
head off and smashed the face until he thoughu
| il would be unrecocn nzabe He then threw the
| head and an arm over wall returned to the road
| lifted the body into the punS and started om
again. After driving about mile and haln
he again alighted and threw the body into some
| shrrlbbery, where it afterward found Tho
left leg he secreted i'm some bushes near by 10
has not yet been found, but the murderer has
described its place Of concealment and IL VIII
| be secured by officers. After depositing the body
| he ok the rubber blanket which had hidden tho
remains in the pung and threw IL. as he thoiIghts
! over the dismembered body. jumped into the pun1
| md drove Off The blanket. however, fell short
OF its mark and left the body exposed. Ills
| hdeous mission occupied him about four hours.
After Nowlin had killed Goldman in the stable
| he stripped the body Of its clothing bundled 10
up and put it in the sleigh. He threw this of
without stopping some little time before he
| chopped his victims head of Ample evidence OF
the crime was found when the police searched the
| stable Nowns attempts TO wash away tho
| stains having been Intellectual In the middle OF
the floor was large space which had been re-
Gently washed In another place an axe, smeared
| with blood was found.
James Edward Nowlin is handsome young
man little over seventeen years old. and is INTEL
lgent lookin. He is one of four brothers wbd
live i'm Somerville While nothing really bad m
known of the brothers, they have the reputation
of being hot-blooded and wild The father OF tho
family il is stated hanged himself In the penten'
tiary in the provinces His departure from SOM
erville a few years ago was fastened by some|
what questionable acts